By Douglas V. Gibbs
The Left has proven that they feel dependency upon the government, and government regulations that squelches jobs, is more important to them than enriching, and training, America's workforce. When Newt Gingrich said kids ought to be working, taught to work, and provided with the tools necessary to create a good work ethic, the democrats went on the attack.
The liberals of the democrat party, through the federal government, has been working for generations to stop children from learning how to work. Evidence of the existence of this foolish policy was revealed when the U.S. Labor Department proposed new rules for child farm workers that would keep many from driving tractors, using big equipment, and working with animals. The claim by labor officials were that the rules are needed because farming is one of the nation's most dangerous occupations.
Farming is less dangerous when the future farmers of America spend years and years training for the occupation as children on the family farm.
Farmers say the proposed rules could also keep kids from learning about the hard work and responsibility necessary to work on a farm.
Constitutionally, the federal government doesn't even have the authority to dictate to individual farmers how to run their farms. Yes, I understand the commerce clause argument, but the original intent of that clause was not for draconian regulations upon private industries by the federal government. During the early history of this nation, commerce did not flow between the states as regularly as the founders felt necessary for this nation to prosper, so the Commerce Clause was devised for the purpose of allowing the federal government to mediate, or referee, disputes between the states in order to ensure that commerce flowed more regularly.
The new regulations by the U.S. Labor Department that does not allow children to learn anything about heavy equipment, or animals, while working on a farm, defeats the whole purpose of the family farm, doesn't it? How is it that learning hard work as a child is a bad thing? Yes, I get the whole child labor laws argument (which at the federal level are also unconstitutional), and I understand that abuse does occur, but where is the line? Where does common sense end, and idiocy ensue?
Kids that grow up on farms, be they the regular variety, or be they something like a dairy farm, or some combination thereof, grow up working. They become adults with a good work ethic. They are hard workers that can be depended on, if not on farms, in whatever vocation they decide to pursue. The family runs the farm. Every day the kids get up early, do their farm chores, eat breakfast, and then go to school. They milk cows, they plow the fields, they run the tractors or follow the mules, they feed the pigs, or whatever else is expected of them. It is a part of life, and because of it they thrive later as adults.
My dad was raised on a dairy farm in Arkansas, and has told a handful of stories about such a lifestyle. The fourth of eight kids, he had his duties, be it milking the cows, or cleaning up the mess the cows create from their south end. I remember one story he told me about how he'd watch for tails to lift up so that he could run over and catch the falling poop with a shovel before it hit the ground. Clean up was easier that way.
After school, just as before school, the farm kids have chores. They do the things required to keep the farm running. Everybody pitches in. Not working results in punishment. The refusal to work used to be seen as "being lazy" in the world, and such people were ostracized, back when my dad was growing up. Hard work was congratulated, and encouraged.
This recipe of creating the next generation of workers and farmers has worked since the beginning of time, and now suddenly it's a bad thing?
Now, hard work is the enemy. Now, raising your children with chores, discipline, and tough love is considered a bad thing. No wonder we have a bunch of non-working, lice infested scuzz-buckets running around at these Occupy events crying that life is too hard. They went to college, got their degree, and big incomes didn't drop into their laps, and now they are upset.
These people were never taught to work. They were never taught that life isn't fair, so you need to work hard to achieve. They never got it drilled into their empty skulls that losing is a part of learning how to win. The liberal society has been so worried about their precious self-esteem, and not wanting to hurt anybody's feelings, that we are producing lazy, good for nothing, whining replacements for our workforce - and now the federal government wants to extend those bad, and unconstitutional policies, into the farms.
Have they not ruined America enough? Do they seriously want to inflict more damage?
Life's losers want to get the high paying jobs, and many of them become free-loaders on entitlement programs, and that is just the way the liberal democrats want it. That is how they buy votes. They reward laziness with handouts, and consider the hard working, self-sufficient, personally responsible Americans the enemy.
Sure, not all people using government assistance are lazy, good for nothing, free-loaders; but I am willing to bet a large majority of them are.
In a society where work has become a four-letter-word, what did they expect would happen? The kids are being indoctrinated, and the liberal teachings are creating losers who expects the world to fall into their lap without even an ounce of failure, hard work, or difficulty.
Things worth having in life are never easy to obtain.
Most colleges indoctrinate their victims with bad ethics, educating these people with experimental feel-good garbage, and then gives them worthless degrees, and they come out not knowing how to do anything, and often they wind up doing jobs not even close to what they expected. Of course they're angry. Of course they feel slighted. And then they blame the achievers who took a different route. They blame the people who succeeded, grew their corporations, and is out there creating jobs.
Obama said he wants to transform America. The transformation has been in place for a while, and now for the liberal left it's coming to fruition. They are doubling down. The liberals in the federal government are trying to drive it home. They hate personal responsibility, they hate individualism. They think you are dangerous if left to your own devices, and that it takes heavy regulations from the ruling elite to keep you from hurting the community with your silly thoughts of profit and achievement.
It's amazing. It is amazing that these people are succeeding at transforming our nation into something the Founding Fathers never intended. It is amazing, also, that the sheep on the Left welcomes this transformation, when only a few decades ago they were celebrating the fall of such madness when the Soviet Union collapsed.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
Farmers say new labor rules could keep teens from farm jobs and fewer may go into agriculture - Washington Post
GOP Frontrunner Newt Gingrich: Poor Children Have No 'Habits of Working Unless It's Illegal' - U.K. Daily Mail
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